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Dry stone

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:46:54 +0000

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This structure stands in the limestone quarry at Aberthaw. It stores the stone after it comes up from the quarry face and keeps it dry until taken along the conveyor belt to the nearby cement works.

Cemex, Dove Holes

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:53:18 +0000

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Dove Holes quarry is operated by Cemex and ships out vast quantities of limestone by road and rail. The quarry is an amalgamation of the earlier Holderness and Newline quarries both of which have been lowered to the water table. Recent developments have seen the quarry expand northwards into the Bee Low area. There is a large area of fixed plant for crushing and screening the stone. The stone is taken by conveyor from the tipping dock and primary crusher to a stockpile under the gantry at lower centre of the image.

Abandoned

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:53:14 +0000

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The long disused stone handling plant at Crich quarry. Opened by The Clay Cross Company in the 19th century and supplying limekilns near Ambergate via a metre gauge railway, the quarry closed in 1958. Reopening for roadstone occurred in the 1960's and it was operated by RMC and Tarmac before passing to Aggregate Industries ownership in 2000. Final closure came in 2010.

Shap Beck

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:43:38 +0000

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The Shap Beck Quarry received a new plant in 1999 and since 2009 supplies around 650,000 tonnes of crushed kiln feed limestone from Shap Beck to Shap Fell processing plant nearby (Tata steel) and used in the large scale production of lime for steelmaking. The quarry also supplies around 300,000 to local and regional markets and has an on-site plant for making asphalt for road surfacing. There are 21 people employed directly and the quarry supports a further 30 jobs for drivers and contractors. The site extends to 118 hectares and is now operated by Heidelberg Materials

The old kilns

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:50:10 +0000

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The shaft limekilns at Tunstead quarry before recladding. Six of these eight kilns have been in use for around 90 years.

Brierlow

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:32:00 +0000

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Spencer type limekilns at Beswicks Limeworks, Brierlow near Buxton in 1909.

Rheinkalk Werk Hönnetal

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:03:47 +0000

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Three limekilns at the Lhoist operated Rheinkalk Werk Hönnetal, Oberrödinghausen. One rotary kiln and a pair of Maerz type kilns. Around 200 people currently work in the quarry, kilns, processing plant, and in administration. Approximately 800,000 tons of quicklime and around 900,000 tons of unburnt limestone products are produced annually.

Dove Holes

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:18:48 +0000

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Whitwell Quarry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:38:34 +0000

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The high purity dolomitic limestone extracted at the Tarmac operated Whitwell quarry is burned in the rotary kilns of the adjoining lime processing plant (operated by Lhoist) for use in refractory products and steel manufacture. There are only two quarries in the UK that produce limestone which is suitable for these specialist uses and both quarries are recognised sources of national importance of this mineral. Other grades of limestone present at the quarry that is not suitable for use in the kilns is used principally to produce agricultural lime and aggregates.

Graig Quarry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:34:43 +0000

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Storage bins alongside the tarmacadam plant at the Lafarge operated Graig Quarry, Llanarmon.

Conveyors

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:22:46 +0000

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Conveyor systems and secondary crusher tower at Pentre Halkyn Quarry. The annual output here is about 1 million tonnes of stone.

Quarry bunkers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:01:43 +0000

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Corrugated iron clad bunkers at the Morris & Perry Ltd., Gurney Slade limestone quarry. This independent family owned company supplies asphalt, ready mix concrete and aggregates.

Hindlow kilns

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:39:16 +0000

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Maerz limekilns at the Tarmac Hindlow Quarry. The stone for burning is brought in by rail from Tunstead as quarrying has been suspended here. Tarmac is proposing to restart quarrying at the site and has been undergoing consultation on the plans.

Brierlow dusk

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 07:29:18 +0000

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Light fades at the Lhoist operated Brierlow Quarry. The steam is from the hydration plant adjacent to the two limekilns.

Loading hoppers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:18:11 +0000

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Loading area for powder and dust products at the Morris & Perry Ltd., Gurney Slade limestone quarry. This independent family owned company supplies asphalt, ready mix concrete and aggregates. I think that this section is operated by the Gurney Slade Lime & Stone Company Limited (a subsidiaty of LKAB Minerals) a group engaged in the manufacture of ground limestone and fertilizer products, the recycling of limestone powders and mineral processing.

Dove Holes Quarry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:00:27 +0000

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Crushing plant

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:47:46 +0000

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Secondary crushing and grading building at Wredon limestone quarry.

Corrugated quarry

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:13:40 +0000

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Lots of lovely corrugated iron on the structures at the Morris & Perry Ltd., Gurney Slade limestone quarry. This independent family owned company supplies asphalt, ready mix concrete and aggregates.

Dump Truck 03

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:56:37 +0000

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A load of limestone heads for the primary crusher at the Cemex owned Dove Holes Quarry. The drilling machine waits on the working bench behind.

Middleton Mine

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:06:34 +0000

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Middleton Mine is located 4 miles south-west of Matlock and worked the Hopton-Wood Limestone underneath Middleton Moor. At the end of the 1950s the high purity Hopton-wood beds had become too deep to work from an open quarry and adit access was driven to continue extraction underground. By 1993 around 16 million tonnes of limestone had been extracted using room and pillar methods with the later rooms 13m wide and pillars 17m square. There are around 26 miles of tunnels. The mine closed in 2005 but the sealed entrances remain visible. This one is the ventilation drift in the Hopton Quarry side of the operation.